Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The relationship between obesity and disordered eating behaviors represents a complex combination of ...

“I had an eating disorder early in my life. I was 11, 12 when I was diagnosed with my first eating disorder,” says Anne Poirier, author of The Body Joyful and someone who today, at 59, has struggled ...

From Weight Watchers to Ozempic, big business profits off eating disorders and their treatments. Metaphors for the body abound: a many-horse-powered machine, a delicate ecosystem, a knife-cut ...

A young woman meticulously arranges the food on her plate, ensuring that each bite is symmetrical before she allows herself to eat. Another counts calories obsessively, unable to deviate from her ...

Events and emotions often influence people's eating behavior, and this association is also common in people with eating disorders. The change in eating triggered by events and associated mood changes ...

Eating behavior is associated with symptoms of pelvic floor disorders in middle-aged women. For example, higher consumption of highly processed ready-made foods and fast food increased the risk for ...

In a survey of the Stanford student body conducted in 2020 by Mila Camargo ’22 M.A. ’23, 92.1% of students** said they would modify their body (i.e. lose weight, gain muscle or change the size/shape ...

While the concept of eating disorders has become more broadly discussed over the last few years, less is understood about the psychology behind them — namely, what is happening inside the brain of a ...

Several possible causes may make a person unable to stop eating. These can include disordered eating behaviors, emotional factors, or binge eating disorder. Many different factors can make it ...

Researchers have identified many different causes for eating disorders, ranging from genetic risk factors to the culture a person grows up in. However, no single factor causes all eating disorders.